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‘Sharp focus’ on teacher-prep programs falls flat 20 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Last week, the New York City Department of Education issued its first ever Teacher Preparation Program Reports. The Department was judicious in not describing the reports as an evaluation of the quali...
The envelope, please… 8 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
They weren’t hermetically sealed. Ten weeks ago, I made some predictions about New York City’s 2013 proficiency rates on the New York State English Language Arts and mathematics assessments—the first ...
Why the NCTQ ratings won’t have much influence, now or later 24 Jul 2013 | 09:30 am
How time flies. It’s been scarcely a month since the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its inaugural ratings of teacher-preparation programs across the country. Already, NCTQ is gear...
The trouble with NCTQ’s ratings of teacher-prep programs 19 Jun 2013 | 08:33 pm
Yesterday, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its first national ratings of teacher-preparation programs. Passing judgment on 1,200 undergraduate and graduate programs across the ...
How will NYC students fare on the new exams? 21 May 2013 | 11:36 pm
Last month, the state of New York administered English Language Arts and mathematics assessments to students in grades 3-8. For the first time, the assessments were aligned with the Common Core State ...
The trouble with New York’s decision not to release test items 24 Apr 2013 | 09:48 pm
First Rule of Fight Club: Do Not Talk about Fight Club Second Rule of Fight Club: DO NOT TALK about Fight Club Has the New York State Education Department watched too many Brad Pitt movies? Okay, that...
What the power quartet didn’t say 13 Apr 2013 | 07:48 pm
This week, the New York Daily News featured an opinion article authored by a power quartet: New York State education commissioner John King; Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch; NYC Public Scho...
Who’s afraid of big data? 19 Mar 2013 | 02:35 am
Nestled in a dusty corner of my office sits a safe, which requires both a key and a combination to open. Inside the safe sits an external hard drive containing my only copy of encrypted confidential d...
Nineteen months of stonewalling by NYC Department of Education 25 Feb 2013 | 08:59 am
It’s nearly springtime, when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). At least in odd-numbered years. I’m not so young, but lately I’ve been thi...
Just how many ineffective teachers are out there? 15 Feb 2013 | 11:34 pm
How many New York City public schoolteachers are so incompetent that they should be fired? That’s the 250-million-dollar question that must be addressed by both sides wrangling over what kind of teach...
